| 单词 | in his wisdom |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin his (or its, etc.) wisdom f. in his (or its, etc.) wisdom: now usually ironic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [adverb] wiselyc888 redlyeOE spacklya1375 wittilya1375 prudentlya1382 redilyc1391 sagelya1400 sapiently1477 wise1487 wittingly1487 savourly1494 sageouslyc1500 ingeniously1548 judiciously1593 in his (or its, etc.) wisdom1852 1852 Queen Victoria in Hansard CXXIII. 20 To enable the Industry of the Country to meet successfully that unrestricted Competition to which Parliament, in its Wisdom, has decided that it should be subjected. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 297 Possibly his Lordship thought, in his wisdom, that the good feeling which was sure to be expressed by a company of well-bred Englishmen, at his august and far-famed dinner-table, might have an appreciable influence on the grand result. 1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 68 If you have no son, it's because the Lord has decreed otherwise in His wisdom. 1974 K. Clark Another Part of Wood vi. 232 In the 1930's, when the country was at least ten times as rich as it is today, the Treasury ‘in its wisdom’ twice found it necessary to cut off our annual purchase grant altogether. < as lemmas |
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